Steel steam and flame

"Alas..." Macquarie sighed in response, not knowing what to say for a moment. He thought for a while to prevent the limo from falling into silence, "Several years have passed since he entered the military school. Until now, no one, including us, could clearly understand the relationship between him and the regiment commander. relationship between them.”

"So when I think about this, I think that when Cassia was not the surgeon, she could get to know the leader and get help. Looking at it this way, you and I won't be surprised. Instead, we will think it is like That should be the case, after all, he is the leader of the group, a person whose name is only known, and it is difficult to meet him in person."

Hilda understood immediately, and after thinking about it carefully, she felt like this, "Just change the leader to Grote Rohm, the first generation knight king of the empire? Let's not think about whether Grote is still alive. If Cassia becomes a surgeon after that, according to you, the probability of coming into contact with someone like the leader will naturally increase."

"Of course, one is an ordinary person and the other is a surgeon. There must be a difference between the two." Macquarie knew that there was no logic at all. He laughed while talking, "There is no use in exploring this information. It will only make people confused." Fall in yourself. There is no saying in philosophy that if you should know, you will know it naturally at some time even if you don’t want to know. If you shouldn’t know, you can’t know it even if you try all means. Even if you know it, you don’t really know it. , it’s all lies.”

"Compared with why Cassia is related to the first-generation Knight King Grote, shouldn't the focus be on what you just said, Miss Knight Commander Hilda?"

Hilda drove the limousine steadily, running quickly on the road with almost no traffic at night. The steam engine made a pleasant "buzzing" sound, like a bee vibrating its wings rapidly. After a while, there were no street lights on both sides of the road, and the front lights of the limousine were turned off. Everything went into darkness and seemed to operate silently.

"Alas..." This time Hilda, who had pursed her lips and thought about it, sighed, "What would it mean if Grote Rohm, the first generation of Knight King, is still alive?"

"It's definitely alive. Don't make assumptions anymore. Face the reality bravely." Macquarie directly turned the assumption into a fact. "The leader seems to have issued an order at will, but if we think about it carefully, we should understand." "Random" is just our conjecture. After all this time, the regiment leader has never personally given us any orders. So if we change the way we think a little, every order she gives is actually very serious and important."

"Also, you have been following the leader for a long time. In your memory, is there any impression that the leader asked us to do the same task together?"

Without waiting for Hilda to reply, Macquarie gave the answer.

"Never before. This is the first time in the true sense." He looked solemn, "The following are all my assumptions, Knight Commander Silfa."

"If we were escorting and transporting other things this time, I would never have said, 'The first generation of Knight King Grote must still be alive.' But what the leader asked us to escort happened to be a human skeleton. , and then it happens to be transported to the edge of the tundra and handed over to the Avalon Agency. In addition, have you noticed that there are vague connections between many recent plans?"

There was no thinking here, Hilda nodded directly. They were the ones in charge of the Kiraandi family, and it was impossible to stop thinking. Moreover, the current situation makes it impossible for them to relax, and there are far more unusual things in their heads.

Hilda took a few seconds to sort out her words: "It started more than two years ago. Ever since the leader went to the depths of the endless sea alone... It should have been after exploring the necropolis and obtaining the blue crystal. Then it started. But the leader chose not to say anything, just like your words about philosophy just now, she must have her own thoughts."

“Knowing some things may not be a good thing, but may cause trouble and unnecessary worries.”

"From a distance, the leader chose to let Li Suman go after the incident in the southern forest. There must be a reason why you helped to speak. But the main reason is..."

She paused as she said this, with an unbelievable look on her face. She turned her head and looked at Magri, and found that Magri had also followed the meaning of her words and thought of the same place.

"Stop thinking about it, I don't think it's possible." McGree shook his head and waved his hand. It was just a small margin, and in the end he was no longer confident, "It's still possible."

"It's not that the leader is unsmart, he just doesn't want to deal with all kinds of annoying things among the four forces within the empire." Hilda added, "The only way to keep the secret is if everyone who knows it dies, there is no one else who knows it. The fewer people there are, the better?”

"You can add one more thing, a lie is usually ninety-nine truths, plus the last lie."

Hilda breathed a long sigh of relief at this moment. After thinking briefly, she did not let the limo get quiet: "I feel that after the arrival of the Red Star, the Houxiang Continent will be very lively. Are the nodes of the historical process like this? You have read more books than I have more comments to make."

"That's probably the case." Macquarie said something that was not an evaluation. "It's just that this kind of speculation makes people a little scared. It can mean too many things."

"After all, it is a node in the historical process, which almost indicates that the entire world will change with the arrival of the node. No matter what happens, it seems to be within the acceptable range."

Hilda continued: "Look at it this way, the reason why Lisuman was still alive after the incident in the southern forest was not because the team battle required her to go to the coast of the Theocracy to establish a trading company and get in touch with certain people. It’s because Cassia most likely did not die in the southern forest and lived in a way that only the leader and others know.”

"Afterwards, I returned to the empire and directly attacked the headquarters of the Holy Emperor's Hall, killing several Holy Fathers, just to make Cassia's death real. After all, we need to make the lie true, and no trace of the lie can be seen."

Although Macquarie on the side was nodding, the amplitude was slow and small. He is still thinking. His intuition told him that the whole process could not be what he and Hilda imagined. Maybe the result is the same, but many, many things must have happened in the process. In the entire chain of events, the importance of the result often only accounts for half. The process that did not require attention in the past is particularly important at this time.

The information is in the process, and that's what they desperately need right now.

"I can't figure it out, there are no traces to follow at all." Macquarie gave up thinking, "But it is good to know a result, although it is not yet true."

"I think you and I can almost acquiesce in the authenticity of these conjectures. What needs to be added are only some of the details. For example, this skeleton that requires our joint efforts to transport it, after it reaches the hands of the Avalon Agency, what will happen to it? what's the effect?"

"I don't think it will be research. The biggest possibility is that it is used as the basic skeleton of a body for someone. Who this person is is the detail we need to add. It is speculated that he did not die, but instead Grote Rohm, the first generation knight king of the empire who is still in action after a thousand years of history, or is it Cassia who we just realized might also be alive?"

"Don't forget, we secretly joined the 'Mechanical Dragon' project of the King of Steel, Defoni Phoenix Law, more than a year ago. Not long after that, the leader also gave you a random order just like he did not long ago. Order, let King of Steel Defoni launch an 'Ultimate Dragon' project to create a larger mechanical dragon with luxurious materials."

"I was standing by when I contacted Defoni. After listening to the leader's request, how did Defoni respond? Do you need me to help you recall it?"

Macquarie first replied "No", and then continued: "That's all the connections between a series of events I want to say. I had never made such a bold guess before, but now I suddenly figured it out. It’s very possible.”

While the two were talking, the road conditions continued to deteriorate, with potholes, gravel, sand, etc. appearing on the unmaintained road surface. But the limo still kept going at a high speed and didn't shake at all. It was as if something had been laid on the potholes and gravel in advance, so that the limo was not affected.

"You want to say that the ultimate user of the Ultimate Dragon Project is not the leader we thought at the beginning, right? Defoni has said that the control system of the Mechanical Dragon is mainly constructed from the kinetic energy armor of the Far Sea Commonwealth . With the addition of some forces from the Empire and the Flame Alliance, the Empire’s control ideas for armor and the Flame Alliance’s training ideas for dragon knights have been added.”

"The larger the size, the higher the mental load it places on the driver. The Mechanical Dragon can already be regarded as another technological crystallization of the current era, just like airships and super vapor compression devices. Pure surgeons cannot use this war machine well, otherwise most of the pilots would not be selected from the Dragon Knights of the Flame Alliance."

"The most common mechanical dragon currently requires a trained dragon knight and multiple crew members to complete basic control. As for smoothness, it will be used in actual combat in the future. It has not been tested yet. The size will increase again Some require high-level surgeons to enter the scene.”

"As for the product of the 'Ultimate Dragon Project', the team leader asked Defoni not to use his control system on it." McGregor simply finished the content of the original contact, "'Under theoretical calculations As a result, there is no control system, and with the many functions requested by your leader... I think in her mind, this is probably not something for us to use.' These are Defoni's exact words."

"So," McGregor concluded, "I think about the same thing as you. The ultimate dragon is Grote Rom, the first generation of knight king of the empire. And the skeleton we will transport may be It's someone else. He might be Cassia. After all, whether he is still alive or not is still within our conjecture. As for his status after he is alive, it is another bigger question. "

"But my personal preference is that bones will not be what Cassia needs. Because it is a bit late. If it were Cassia, the leader would not act now."

Hilda immediately agreed with Macquarie's point of view: "Either the ultimate dragon and the human skeleton are both Grote Rom. Or, someone is sharing these two results equally with the first-generation knight king. As for the equal share, The other person..."

She looked at Macquarie, with a smile that showed she didn't care about the result and was full of random thoughts.

"Tell me, could it be the second-generation knight king of the empire, Coverdale Nelson, who is much less popular than Grote? We don't understand or know the level of the leader. The thing is, since the first generation is still alive, isn’t it normal for the second generation to be alive too?”

"I hope this kind of thing doesn't happen." McGregor's face was full of sorrow. "It's not that I don't want them to live. If they don't die and join this historical process in the future, it will definitely be helpful to us. It’s a huge help. I admit this, and I also want to see it. But just like what you said, we don’t understand and don’t know the affairs of the group leader’s level.”

"If neither the first generation nor the second generation died, then can we also think that not only the knight kings of the empire, but also the knight kings of the past generations of the Holy Juluo Empire and the Nature Association Alliance have all used their respective methods to They are alive in various forms and have not died. Are they also waiting for a suitable time and preparing to join this historical process together? "

Hilda immediately stopped talking and the look on her face disappeared. After a while, she spoke, her tone was flat and cold, without emotion: "Forget it, the first generation and the second generation don't want to live anymore. What I want to see is leaving both things to Cassia. .”

Macquarie laughed: "I can understand your mood. The number of knight kings combined between the Holy Shiluo Empire and the Nature Association Alliance is really not that happy."

"In short, the arrival of the Red Star is not far away. By then, everything will be clear."

"Yes..." Hilda finally replied, and the limo quickly became quiet. More than an hour and a half later, a huge black shadow appeared in front of them. Their destination, the volcanic no-man's land, was not far away from them.